Deborah Okyere Data-verified

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University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-04-18

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5 h-index 11 pubs 187 cited

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Deborah Okyere's research investigates the properties of materials and their interactions with biological systems, with a focus on nanoparticles, surfaces, and bacterial behavior. Her work includes studying the tribological performance of thin coatings and cartilage-inspired textures for orthopedic implants. She has also examined the stability and optical properties of copper nanoparticles and engineered silver nanoparticle surfaces for antimicrobial applications. Okyere's research extends to understanding bacterial mobility and motility in porous media, including flagellar dynamics of *E. coli* in hydrogels. She has published on the synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles for undergraduate physical chemistry experiments. Okyere collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Ariel Rogers, Min Zou, Firuze Soltani-Kordshuli, and Diksha Shrestha, with shared publications across these collaborations.

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h-index: 5
Publications: 11
Citations: 187

Selected Publications

Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Nanoparticles: A Laboratory Experiment for Undergraduate Physical Chemistry (2025)

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Flagellar dynamics and entanglement of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="italic">E</mml:mi> <mml:mo>.</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mspace width="0.16em"/> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>c</mml:mi> <mml:mi>o</mml:mi> <mml:mi>l</mml:mi> <mml:mi>i</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> bacteria in polymeric hydrogel (2025)

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Durable Low-Friction Graphite Coatings Enabled by a Polydopamine Adhesive Underlayer (2025)

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Understanding the Mechanism of Bent DNA Amplifying Sensors Using All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations (2025)

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The Shape Modulation of Laser-Induced Nanowelded Microstructures Using Two Colors (2023)

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Bacterial mobility and motility in porous media mimicked by microspheres (2023)

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Engineering silver nanoparticle surfaces for antimicrobial applications (2022)

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Stability of Polyethylene Glycol-Coated Copper Nanoparticles and Their Optical Properties (2022)

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Tribological behavior of the PDA/PTFE + Cu-SiO2 nanoparticle thin coatings (2021)

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